Finally it's here!! The article about Ilvermorny School of witchcraft and wizardry! JKR gives us some major writing 19 years later!
Ilvermorny was founded by the Irish witch Isolt Sayre.
Isolt had to flee Ireland in her early life to get away from her anti-muggle and cruel aunt. She never got to attend Hogwarts herself, because her aunt kept her imprisoned after murdering her parents. One day Isolt stole her aunts wand and began her journey to Massachusetts disguised as a boy traveling by ship.
There she hid for a long time, married a muggle and adopted 2 wizard children and eventually founded Ilvermorny (for full details, read the article on pottermore). Let me just say this: the wand Isolt stole was Salazar Slytherins!! She was a direct descendent of him and another pure-blood family. She buried the wand in front of Ilvermorny, where a tree grew out of it.
I think it's crazy how closely linked these two schools are. Hogwarts and Ilvermorny both have 4 houses. Whereas Hogwarts houses are named after their founders, Ilvermorny houses are named after the magical creature each founder (Isolt, her husband and their two sons) liked best. They are called Horned Serpent, Thunderbird, Wampus and Pukwudgie.
You can now get sorted into you're Ilvermorny house on pottermore! So take the quiz now and see where you belong!
I myself got Pukwudgie, which represents the witches or wizards heart and is believed to favour healers.
You get to download wallpapers of your Ilvermorny house just as the ones from Hogwarts house. Pukwudgie looks like this:
I'm excited to see what the other houses wallpapers look like!
Mischief managed!
